The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-15

place. DO you come here nights to hold
a service?" "0h, yes" she said. "Can it
be possible that you never meet with an
insult while performing this Christian
errand?" "NeVer," she said, never I"
That young woman who has her father by
her side walking down the street, an armed
police at each corner, is not SO well de-
Tended as that Christian woman who goes
forth on Gospel work into the haunts of
iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread.
God, with the red right arm of his wrath
omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one
who should offer indignity. He would
smite him with lightnings and drown him
with Hoods, and swallow him with earth
quakes, and damn him with eternal indig-
nations. Some one said: 81 dislike very
much to see that Christian woman teach
ing those bad boys in the mission school.
l am afraid TO have her instruct them.
so" said another man, 81 am afraid, too
Said the Arst: II am afraid they will use
vile language before they leave the place"
"Ah, said the other man, "I am not afraid
Of that. What | am afraid of is, that if
any of those boys should use bad word in
that presence the other boys would tear
him to pieces, and kill him on the SPOT"
That woman is the best sheltered who is
sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and
you need never fear going anywhere where
God tells you to go.
1t seems as il the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solicita-
ton of charities. Backed up by barrels
i'll which there is no flour, and bv stoves
lit which there is no fire, and by ward
robes in which there are no clothes, a
woman is irresistible; passing on her
errand God says 10 her "You go into that
hoNLy utg oh
money" She goes in and gets it. The
man is hard Listed, but she gets it. She
could not help but get it. 1t is decreed
from eternity she should get it. No need
of your tuning your back and pretending
you don't hear; you do hear. There is no
need of your saying you are begged to
death. There is no need of your wasting
your time, and you might as we'll submit
first as last. You had better right away
take your check book, mark the number
Of the check, fill up the blank, sign your
name, and hand it to her. There is na
need of wasting time. Those poor chill
dren on the back street have been hungry
long enough. That sick man must have
some farina. That consumptive must have
something to ease his cough. I meet this
delegate of relief society coming out Of
the store of such hard man, and l
say: "Did you get the money!" "Of
course" she says, Il got the money; that's
what l went for. The Lord told me to 90
in and get it, and He never sends me on a
FOOLS errand."
Again: l have to tell you that it is q
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress of dire disaster. She is called
the weaker vessel; but all profane as well
as sacred history attests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
you have seen woman who seemed to be
q disciple of frivolity and Incidence, Who.
under one stroke of calamity, changed to
a heroine. Oh, what great mistake those
business men make who never tell Their
business troubles to their wives There
comes some great loss to their store, OF
some of their companions in business
play them q sad trick, and they carry the
burden all alone. He is asked in the
household again and again: What is the
matter? but he believes it sort of Chris
tian duty to keep all that trouble within
his own soul. Oh, your first duty was to
tell your wife all about it. She, perhaps,
might not have disentangled your finances,
or extended your credit, but she would
have helped You to bear misfortune. You
have no right to carry on one shoulder
that which is intended for two. There are
business men here who know what mean.
There came crisis in your affairs. You
struggled bravely and long; but after
while there came a day when you said:
"Here / shall have to STOP" and you
called in your partners, and you called in
the most prominent men in your employ,
and you said: 1--WE have got to STOP"
You left the store suddenly. You could
hardly make up your mind to pass through
the street and over on the ferry boat. You
felt everybody would be looking at you,
and blaming you, and denouncing you.
You hastened home. You told your wife
all about the affair. What did she say?
Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk
about the silks, and the ribbons, and the
fashions? No. She came up to the
emergency. She quailed not under the
stroke. She helped you to begin to plan
right away. She offered to go out of the
comfortable house into a smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She
was one who understood your affairs
without blaming you. You looked upon
woman's arm holding you up; but while
you looked at that arm there came into the
feeble muscles of it the strength of the
eternal God. No chiding. No fretting.
No telling you about the beautiful house
of her father, from which you brought
her, ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. You
said: "Well, this is the happiest day Of
my life. am glad have got from under
my burden. My wife don't care-I don't
care." At the moment you were utterly
exhausted God sent Deborah to meet the
host of the Amalekites and scatter them
like chatf over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their
Christian powers. o, what grand and
glorious things they could do if they only
had an opportunity! My sister, you need
not wait for any such time. A crisis will
come in your affairs. There will BE
Thermopylae in your own household where
God will tell you to stand. There are
scores and hundreds of households to-day
where as much bravery and courage are
demanded of women as was exhibited by
Grace Darling, or Marie Antoinette, or
Joan of Arc.
Again l remark, it is o woman's right
to bring 10 us the kingdom of Heaven. 1t
is easier for woman to be Christian
than for a man. WhyP You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more respon-
sive to the pleadings of divine love. She
is in vast majority. The fact that she can
more easily become a Christian, l prove
by the statement that three -fourths of the
members of the churches in all Christen-
dom are women. So God appoints them
to be the chief agencies for bringing this
world back to God. may stand here and
say the soul is immortal. There is man
who will refute it. l may stand here and
say we are lost and undone without Christ.
There is a man who will refute it. / may
stand here and say there will be judg-
ment day after while. Yonder is some
one who will refute it. But Christian
woman in Christian household, living in
the faith and the consistency Of Christ's
Gospel-nobodv can refute that. The GREAT